Category: Competition Enforcement
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Anthropic “blindsided” by proposed U.S. Google AI investment ban, seeks to participate in DOJ antitrust suit
Forcing Google to divest its investment in AI firms could seriously impact Anthropic’s ability to develop new products and remain competitive in the tight race at the AI frontier, Anthropic has complained.
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Google, Amazon bullish on cloud business units — contrary to regulatory complaints over alleged software licensing issues
Context: The UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) is conducting a cloud service market investigation, favoring Google over Amazon and both over Microsoft (January 28, 2025 ai fray article). In particular, Google and Amazon accuse Microsoft of designing software licensing terms in ways that distort cloud competition. What’s new: It’s earnings season, and all three…
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UK CMA releases preliminary ruling in legacy cloud market investigation, contemplating use of new law and favoring Google over Amazon and Microsoft
The UK Competition & Markets Authority today released its provisional findings in a cloud market investigation, with the current inclination being to use a new competition enforcement framework after the final decision in the current process.
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Adjustments to Microsoft-OpenAI partnership and Stargate launch mean more openness, (even) less reason for competition concern
Context: Various antitrust authorities have recently been looking into strategic partnerships between large technology companies (particularly, but not exclusively, cloud service providers) and AI providers. The UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA), which is presently undergoing a leadership change because the UK government is worried about the implications of the agency’s regulatory zeal for economic…
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FTC releases Staff Report on AI Partnerships & Investments: collection of information and innuendo with unclear contours
Just prior to the transition of power in Washington, D.C., the Federal Trade Commission released a staff report on AI partnerships.
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Korean broadcasters target top national search engine Naver in first-ever domestic AI copyright infringement suit
South Korea’s SBS, KBS and MBC are seeking damages from Naver for using their articles to train its GenAI platforms HyperClova and HyperClova X without their permission, which they claim also violates national antitrust rules.
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“We want Britain to shape the AI revolution”: UK government publishes AI action plan
The new plan will make the UK “irresistible” to AI firms and includes changes such as encouraging public and private data licensing, and reforming the UK text and data mining regime so it is “at least as competitive as the EU”, British government says.
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Korea’s antitrust watchdog issues GenAI competition report, mulls merger control regime amendments
The Korea Fair Trade Commission landmark report raises concerns about Big Tech partnerships in AI, including Microsoft’s hiring of Inflection employees in March this year.
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AI startups want to be protected by regulation, but also against overregulation: observations on a16z-Microsoft statement
A joint statement by venture investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and President Brad Smith